DIGITAL FIELD NOTES

I'm a photographer, graphic designer, sometimes-musician, and developer who treats the computer as my terminal for all things creative. I graduated with a B.S. in computer science at SUNY: Empire State University after spending two years studying biology at VCU in Richmond, VA, and before that my freshman year at JMU until being interupted by COVID.

Most of what I make sits somewhere between observation and assembly. I like wandering with a camera until a color or texture interrupts me, then pulling those fragments into something new-- zines, posters, tiny looping videos, stray graphics that feel like they fell out of an early web tutorial. Travel always shows up in the work, whether it’s a metro station palette from Paris, the soft geometry of Richmond brickwork, or the winter haze above the Catskills. I treat these moments as raw material, the same way I treat pixels or code.

On the technical side, I build Minecraft Mods, quirky websites for myself and friends, and a super secret serious project that I can't tell you about. I enjoy wrestling with Java, debugging misbehaving entities, and pasting together HTML snippets just as much as shooting digital at blue hour.

If you're here from a non-creative job application I've submitted, keep this in mind: I treat every project, technical or artistic, with the same design-forward mindset. A good eye goes a long way, in code, in a spreadsheet, in even an email.